see|Bora
English
Etymology 1
From Gamilaraay.
Alternative spellings
Bora
Noun
en-noun

1. A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.

Synonyms
burbung
Quotations
1873, William Ridley, Report on Australian Languages and Traditions, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2
:Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora.
1885, A. L. P. Cameron, Notes on some Tribes of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 14
:By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora, at which youths are initiated to manhood...
Category:Gamilaraay derivations

Etymology 2
Perhaps from a dialectal form of It. borea �north wind�, from L. Boreas.

Noun
en-noun|-

1. A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.

#*2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 650:
#*:When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?

Category:Weather

Bosnian
Noun
bs-noun|g=f|bore

1. wrinkle
2. pleat
3. geology|lang=bs fold

Declension
bs-decl-noun
|bora|bore
|bore|bora
|bori|borama
|boru|bore
|boro|bore
|borom|borama
|bori|borama

Croatian
Noun
hr-noun|g=f|bore

1. wrinkle
2. geology|lang=hr fold

Declension
hr-decl-noun
|bora|bore
|bore|bora
|bori|borama
|boru|bore
|boro|bore
|bori|borama
|borom|borama

Icelandic
Etymology
Old Norse

Verb
bora

1. to bore, drill

Category:Icelandic verbs

Old English
Etymology
From the verb beran

Noun
bora m

1. bearer (in compounds)

Category:Old English nouns

Serbian
Noun
sr-noun|g=f|bore

1. wrinkle
2. pleat
3. geology|lang=sr fold

Cyrillic spelling
бо�а

Declension
sr-decl-noun
|bora|bore
|bore|bora
|bori|borama
|boru|bore
|boro|bore
|borom|borama
|bori|borama

Swahili

Adjective
bora

1. fine

Category:Swahili adjectives

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